Today the major web search engines answer queries by showing ten result snippets, which need to be inspected by users for identifying relevant results. In this paper we investigat...
Dynamic web applications such as mashups need efficient access to web data that is only accessible via entity search engines (e.g. product or publication search engines). However,...
Named Entity Recognition (NER) is the task of locating and classifying names in text. In previous work, NER was limited to a small number of predefined entity classes (e.g., peop...
Named entities (e.g., "Kofi Annan", "Coca-Cola", "Second World War") are ubiquitous in web pages and other types of document and often provide a simpl...
Felix Weigel, Klaus U. Schulz, Levin Brunner, Edua...
The problem of identity and reference is receiving increasing attention in the (semantic) web community and is emerging as one of the key features which distinguish traditional kno...
Paolo Bouquet, Themis Palpanas, Heiko Stoermer, Ma...